How Fast is your Samsung F4EG (HD204UI) Transfer Speed

[TJCS]

I just installed a new Samsung F4EG 2TB inside my machine(sig) and want to know if my transfer speeds seem a little low.

Transferring 500GB of files from my WD Black 1TB to my Samsung F4EG gives me an average of 78 MB/s. I have seen people report getting over 100MB/s consistent transfer speeds, and I m wondering why I am not even close to that number. Did i set up something wrong? what kinds of transfer speeds are you guys getting on these drives?

My HDD Settings:

• SATAII Mode: Enhanced, AHCI
• SATA Link Power Management: Enabled
• Intel Rapid Storage Driver: 10.1.0.1008 (Latest)
• Formated in Windows 7, Allocation Unit Size: Default
• 2TB Formated as Single Partition



My HDTune Results seems normal...

 

[aceO07]

They measured while transferring a single large file. Drives slow down when you transfer multiple smaller files.

 

[Soundmanred]

Looks normal to me.

 

[TJCS]

They measured while transferring a single large file. Drives slow down when you transfer multiple smaller files.

I realize that transferring many chunks of small data may cause slow downs, but earlier I transferred a single 5GB video file and the transfer speeds are pretty much about the same (78MB/s).

Anyway to make it faster?

 

[alexruiz]

How fragmented was the source drive? I mean, was the video file quite fragmented in the source drive?

I am also getting > 100 Mb/sec.

 

[Auric]

Looks normal to me.

Ditto. Both benchmark and real usage. If working with large files, then an allocation unit size of 64KB would be better than 4KB but to minimize the difference between specified and practical results probably requires a higher performance controller.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I just benchmarked my Seagate 7200.12 drive, with HDTune free version, and got 123.3MB/sec max, 65.8MB/sec min, 99.8MB/sec ave. Access time 13.6, Burst 182.9MB/sec.

Plugged into a Gigabyte G31 mobo with ICH7, SATA2 ports.